Yesterday was the 4th of July. America's 241st birthday. I'm old enough to vividly remember the Bicentennial and all the hoopla and ...
Find The Glass
A couple of weeks ago, a group of friends and I took our annual kiteboarding pilgrammage to Cape Hatteras. We go to Hatteras for a lot of reasons: ...
Paying-It-Forward to Friends On Both Sides Of The Job Search Equation
Let's face it, the nature of employer / employee relationships has changed permanently. While you still need to work your butt off every day to ...
You Have To Study The Game, To Win The Game
Recently, a friend shared a post with me from Business Insider, entitled How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly Like You've Never Done ...
Root For Your Cinderella Teams
This post is highly time critical, as the sports metaphor around which this whole topic is based is likely to have wound down by the time you read ...
Enabling the Collisions Between The “Slow Hunches” In Your Organization
Recently I've been inspired by some pretty engaging discussions going on on Google+ about the concept of "the connected enterprise" by some big ...
Is The US Living In A Ponziconomy?
Several days ago on a trans-Pacific flight I read two interesting articles in the same newspaper. One was an analysis of the most recent jobs and ...
For Inspiration, Take The Road Less Traveled
Last week, I attended some meetings up at the Homestead Resort, in the Allegheny mountains of Virginia. (It's a great venue, by the way, with a real ...
Roadkill
All of us have had the unpleasant experience of coming across roadkill. Although I've never seen empirical evidence, I'm pretty sure that most of ...
Battle of the Shanzai Kombinis
See the full gallery on Posterous Came across these two Shanzai Convenience stores on opposing sides of a busy Nanhui intersection yesterday. I ...